Are you a developer looking to quickly build scalable, maintainable Web applications? Chances are that you’ve already come across Ruby and Rails , one of the most popular combinations for modern Web development. Today, more than 800,000 websites are estimated to run Ruby on Rails, and it’s also in use by such high-profile companies as Github , Shopify and Basecamp . Ruby gives you an object-oriented foundation for your code; Rails extends it with a dynamic, flexible Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework that supports many different use cases. The combination produces clean, maintainable Web applications that can be efficiently tested, extended and deployed at scale. There’s also an active community that ensures overall security and stability and provides informal technical support via mailing lists and chat. One of the key benefits of Rails is that it simplifies Web applic...